Since Adobe Systems purchased the license to distribute Photoshop in September 1988 (incidentally the same month I was born - I'm a real Photoshop baby!), it has grown to be the flagship of Adobe Systems and the most used commercial image editing program. This is the sleek icon that for the newest version, CS4:



But, even Photoshop has embarassing baby pictures



And this is what you saw when you opened version 1.0.7:



Interesting thing to note that even now, over a decade and 13-14 versions later, the interface still have a strong resemblance with the "baby version". Good design or lazy designers?

For more early version pictures of Photoshop, visit this blog.


Now, I got a question for you! What's your top three favorite tools in Photoshop? Put another way: if you were stranded on a lonely island and you were allowed Photoshop in a very reduced version, which tools would you choose if you were only allowed three?

(layers are a given, no need to mention them )

Mine would be:
The Clone Stamp
Layer masks
The round brush




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